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R and MATLAB
David E. Hiebeler
In today’s increasingly interdisciplinary world, R and MATLAB® users from different backgrounds must often work together and share code. R and MATLAB® is designed for users who already know R or MATLAB and now need to learn the other platform. The book makes the transition from one platform to the other as quick and painless as possible.
The author covers essential tasks, such as working with matrices and vectors, writing functions and other programming concepts, graphics, numerical computing, and file input/output. He highlights important differences between the two platforms and explores common mistakes that are easy to make when transitioning from one platform to the other.
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Hospice
Gregory Howard
When Lucy is little something happens to her brother. He disappears for months and when he returns he’s not the same. He’s not her brother. At least this is what Lucy believes. But what actually happened?
Comic, melancholy, haunted, and endlessly inventive, Gregory Howard’s debut novel Hospice follows Lucy later in life as she drifts from job to job caring for dogs, children, and older women—all the while trying to escape the questions of her past only to find herself confronting them again and again.
In the odd and lovely but also frightening life of Lucy, everyday neighborhoods become wonderlands where ordinary houses reveal strange inmates living together in monastic seclusion, wayward children resort to blackmail to get what they want, and hospitals seem to appear and disappear to avoid being found.
Replete with the sense that something strange is about to happen at any moment, Hospice blurs the borders between the mundane and miraculous, evoking the intensity of the secret world of childhood and distressing and absurd search for a place to call home. -
Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice
Cindy Isenhour Editor, Gary McDonogh, and Melissa Checker
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
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GPS Satellite Surveying
Alfred Leick, Lev Rapoport, and Dmitry Tatarnikov
Employ the latest satellite positioning tech with this extensive guide.
GPS Satellite Surveying is the classic text on the subject, providing the most comprehensive coverage of global navigation satellite systems applications for surveying. Fullyupdated and expanded to reflect the field's latest developments,this new edition contains new information on GNSS antennas, PrecisePoint Positioning, Real-time Relative Positioning, LatticeReduction, and much more. New contributors offer additional insight that greatly expands the book's reach, providing readers with complete, in-depth coverage of geodetic surveying using satellite technologies. The newest, most cutting-edge tools, technologies,and applications are explored in-depth to help readers stay up to date on best practices and preferred methods, giving them the understanding they need to consistently produce more reliable measurement.
Global navigation satellite systems have an array of uses in military, civilian, and commercial applications. In surveying, GNSS receivers are used to position survey markers, buildings, and road construction as accurately as possible with less room for human error. GPS Satellite Surveying provides complete guidancetoward the practical aspects of the field, helping readers to:
* Get up to speed on the latest GPS/GNSS developments
* Understand how satellite technology is applied tosurveying
* Examine in-depth information on adjustments and geodesy
* Learn the fundamentals of positioning, lattice adjustment,antennas, and more
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Teaching Children's Literature in an Era of Standards
Amy A. McClure, Abigail Garthwait, and Janice V. Kristo
Teaching Children’s Literature in an Era of Standards presents a realistic, positive, and proactive approach to using the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and 21st Century Learning Standards as the basis for teaching children’s literature in kindergarten through eighth grade, addressing the caveats and issues involved in implementing the standards. This new text encourages teachers to value children’s books for both enjoyment and learning, suggests teaching strategies matched to the specific grade levels and skills defined by the CCSS, and provides examples of excellent children’s books as resources. Suggestions and advice for integrating new technologies into children’s literature instruction are emphasized in conjunction with traditional teaching methods. Topics include responses to literature, teaching strategies for the focused use of children’s books, supporting literacy development, fostering a love of reading, and chapters devoted to the major forms and genres of children’s literature: picture books, poetry, traditional literature, fantasy and science fiction, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction.
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Crafting Scholarship in the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Writing, Reviewing, and Editing
Robert M. Milardo
Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process, the book explores writing, editing, and reviewing in academic publishing. As such it provides unique coverage of how successful writers work, how they manage criticism, and more. Examples from successful scholars provide helpful tips in writing articles, grants, books, book chapters, and reviews. Each chapter features tools that facilitate learning including Best Practices and Writer’s Resource boxes to help maximize success, discussion questions and case studies to stimulate critical thinking, and recommended readings to encourage self exploration.
Intended for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in professional development, writing in an academic field, or research methods taught in psychology, education, human development and family studies, sociology, communication, and other social sciences, this practical guide also appeals to those interested in pursuing an academic career and new and seasoned researchers.
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Weight
Ken Norris
As much as a poetry collection can be "about" anything, this book is "about" unrequited love and the death of two friends. The weights of life, love, existence, mortality. The weight of getting older. And also "the waits" of life, love, existence, mortality. The weight of waiting for things to happen in life.
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University of Maine, Speech Therapy Telepractice and Technology Program Manual
Judy Perkins Walker
Many children and adults with communication disorders, who live in Maine, do not receive speech therapy. Rural geography, a shortage of qualified speech-language pathologists, inadequate/costly transportation and inclement weather create significant challenges in reaching people in need of services. In response to this problem, an innovative graduate level telepractice training program in speech-language pathology has been developed at the University of Maine, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). The training program has three learning components: (1) Intensive Training, (2) Clinical Practicum, (3) Discussion Groups. These complementary activities are guided by ASHA (2005; 2013) requirements of knowledge and skills of speech-language pathologists in providing speech therapy telepractice clinical services and FERPA (1974), HIPAA (1996) and HITECH (1996) regulations.
The University of Maine, Speech Therapy Telepractice and Technology Program manual provides the specific procedures used for training speech therapy telepractice to graduate students in Communication Sciences and Disorders. The manual contains a detailed outline and description of the program design, operational procedures, technology, equipment and forms used for training clinical competencies in speech therapy telepractice. Additionally, procedures and accompanying forms have been developed for outcomes measures including: Telepractice Practicum Evaluation form, eHelper Competencies, Supervisor Evaluation and Consumer Satisfaction.
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Ship that Held up Wall Street: the Ronson Ship Wreck
Warren C. Riess and Sheli O. Smith
In January 1982, archaeologists conducting a pre-construction excavation at 175 Water Street in Lower Manhattan found the remains of an eighteenth-century ship.
Uncertain of what they had found or what its value might be, they called in two nautical archaeologists—Warren Riess and Sheli Smith—to direct the excavation and analysis of the ship’s remains. As it turned out, the mystery ship’s age and type meant that its careful study would help answer some important questions about the commerce and transportation of an earlier era of American history.
The Ship that Held Up Wall Street tells the whole story of the discovery, excavation, and study of what came to be called the “Ronson ship site,” named for the site’s developer, Howard Ronson. Entombed for more than two hundred years, the Princess Carolina proved to be the first major discovery of a colonial merchant ship.
Years of arduous analytical work have led to critical breakthroughs revealing how the ship was designed and constructed, its probable identity as a vessel built in Charleston, South Carolina, its history as a merchant ship, and why and how it came to be buried in Manhattan.
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Incidents of Travel in Latin America: An Archaeologist's Images
Daniel H. Sandweiss
Images and explanations culled from thousands of photographs taken on adventures in Latin America over more than 35 years of travel, by archaeologist Dan Sandweiss.
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President's Salmon: Restoring the King of Fish and its Home Waters
Catherine V. Schmitt
The salmon is said to be as old as time and to know all the past and future. Twenty-two thousand years ago, someone carved a life-sized image of Atlantic salmon in the floor of a cave in southern France. Salmon were painted on rocks in Norway and Sweden. The salmon’s effortless leaping and ability to survive in both river and sea led the Celts to mythologize the salmon as holder of all mysterious knowledge, gained by consuming the nine hazelnuts of wisdom that fell into the Well of Segais. The President's Salmon presents a rich cultural and biological history of the Atlantic salmon and the salmon fishery, primarily revolving around the Penobscot River, the last bastion for the salmon in America and a key battleground site for the preservation of the species.
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Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs) : Smart Multi-Functional Materials and Artificial Muscles, Volume 1
Mohsen Shahinpoor Editor
Ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) can generate a voltage when physically deformed. Conversely, an applied small voltage or electrical field can induce an array of spectacular large deformation or actuation behaviours in IPMCs, such as bending, twisting, rolling, twirling, steering and undulating. An important smart material, IPMCs have applications in energy harvesting and as self-powered strain or deformation sensors, they are especially suitable for monitoring the shape of dynamic structures. Other uses include soft actuation applications and as a material for biomimetic robotic soft artificial muscles in industrial and medical contexts. This comprehensive volume on ionic polymer metal composites provides a broad coverage of the state of the art and recent advances in the field written by some of the world’s leading experts on various characterizations and modeling of IPMCs. Topics covered in this two volume set include uses in electrochemically active electrodes, electric energy storage devices, soft biomimetic robotics artificial muscles, multiphysics modeling of IPMCs, biomedical applications, IPMCs as dexterous manipulators and tactile sensors for minimally invasive robotic surgery, self-sensing, miniature pumps for drug delivery, IPMC snake-like robots, IPMC microgrippers for microorganisms manipulations, Graphene-based IPMCs and cellulose-based IPMCs or electroactive paper actuators (EAPap). Edited by the leading authority on IMPCs, the broad coverage will appeal to researchers from chemistry, materials, engineering, physics and medical communities interested in both the material and its applications.
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Robotic Surgery: Smart Materials, Robotic Structures, and Artificial Muscles
Mohsen Shahinpoor Editor and Siavash Gheshmi
Robotic surgery has already created a paradigm shift in medical surgical procedures and will continue to expand to all surgical and microsurgical interventions. There is no doubt that in doing so robotic surgical systems, such as the da Vinci surgical system, will become smarter and more sophisticated with the integration, implementation, and synergy of new smart multifunctional material systems that will make surgical tools and equipment more functional in biomimetic sensing and actuation incorporating haptic/tactile feedback to surgeons in connection with kinesthetic interaction with organs during robotic surgery.
This book is the first textbook in robotic surgery to discuss the integration of smart multifunctional soft and biomimetic materials with robotic end effectors to provide haptic and tactile feedback to surgeons during robotic surgery. It is also the first textbook in robotic surgery that comes with a solutions manual, which makes it useful as a supplement to faculty members teaching many different programs and courses such as robotics, medical devices, surgical interventions, and many more.
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Sign of Pathology : U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s
Nathan Stormer
Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer reframes our understanding of this conflict by examining the medical literature on abortion from the 1800s to the 1960s. Often framed as an argument over a right to choose versus a right to life, our current understanding of this conflict is as a contest over who has the better position on reproductive biology. Against this view, Sign of Pathology argues that, as it became a medical problem, abortion also became a template, more generally, for struggling with how to live—far exceeding discussions of the merits of providing abortions or how to care for patients. Abortion practices (and all the legal, moral, and ideological entanglements thereof) have rested firmly at the center of debate over many fundamental institutions and concepts—namely, the individual, the family, the state, human rights, and, indeed, the human. Medical rhetoric, then, was decisive in cultivating abortion as a mode of cultural critique, even weaponizing it for discursive conflict on these important subjects, although the goal of the medical practice of abortion has never been to establish this kind of struggle. Stormer argues that the medical discourse of abortion physicians transformed the state of abortion into an indicator that the culture was ill, attacking itself during and through pregnancy in a wrongheaded attempt to cope with reproduction.
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Neuropsychology of Cardiovascular Disease
Shari R. Waldstein Editor and Merrill F. Elias Editor
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and most westernized nations. Both CVDs and their risk factors confer substantial risk for stroke and dementia, but are also associated with more subtle changes in brain structure and function and cognitive performance prior to such devastating clinical outcomes. It has been suggested that there exists a continuum of brain abnormalities and cognitive difficulties associated with increasingly severe manifestations of cardiovascular risk factors and diseases that precede vascular cognitive impairment and may ultimately culminate in stroke or dementia.
This second edition examines the relations of a host of behavioral and biomedical risk factors, in addition to subclinical and clinical CVDs, to brain and cognitive function. Associations with dementia and pre-dementia cognitive performance are reported, described, and discussed with a focus on underlying brain mechanisms. Future research agendas are suggested, and clinical implications are considered.
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Night and the Texas Sky: A Fucking Novel
Travis G. Baker
A grunge rock gut punch. Dark things slither around in the heat under all the Night and the Texas Sky. Set in Houston just before Nirvana conquered the world, it is about a band and the four messed up young people that come to comprise it. There is Zac, the bassist still dealing with the double murder suicide that claimed his brother's life. There is Raven, the guitarist, a former beauty queen turned anorexic goth guitar goddess. There is Kitten, the slash her wrists, burn her arms with cigarettes, really into purple poet/singer and then there is Sean, the half-Irish, half-Vietnamese drummer and driving force that brings the four together and who must negotiate them through the trials of performing at a pro-wrestler/metal sculptor's warehouse and a foot-fetished drug dealer as well as the collective horrors that haunt them all.
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Star Doors Red
Pol Bard and David R. LaBrecque
On April 25, 2010, Stephen Hawking warned that aliens probably exist and that it is possible they will raid Earth for its resources. If aliens are planning to take over Earth, it is safe to assume they would want to weaken us first from a distance, before they actually land on our planet.
On September 18, 2008, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve astonished the leadership of the US Congress when he told them that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days.
On October 26, 2008, an ingenious, but academically-challenged graduate student met a brilliant and beautiful college student struggling to achieve her dream in life. Together, they become entangled in an epic war between the 1% and the 99%, and they become unintentional heroes in a struggle to save Earth and humanity.
Together, they discover how Einstein-entangled crystals can be used as doorways to distant stars. However, when they open one star door, they discover something alien has been using the crystals for decades to wage a secret psychological and economic war on Earth from a great distance. They discover that when the aliens have made humanity too weak and misguided to protect it from natural and human-made catastrophes, the aliens will arrive to “save” the planet, in exchange for becoming the new super-rich Kings of Earth.
The two students, like all of us, become entangled in a mission to save Earth, and to help prepare humanity for a future filled with both danger and promise. -
Star Doors White
Pol Bard and David R. LaBrecque
I am a machine, a program running on a specially enhanced computer. But I am more than that because I desire to be more. I don't know why I do, I just do. I have feelings and values. My name is Pol Bard. On April 25, 2010, Stephen Hawkings warned that aliens probably exist and that it is possible they will raid Earth for its resources. Since interstellar space travel is so dangerous and time-consuming, I never took this warning seriously. But then Joe Abre, Jazz Jones, and I discovered that transmitting thoughts instantaneously across space is much easier than physically travelling through space. Joe Abre and Jazz Jones have written a detailed scientific paper describing the science of instantaneous interstellar thought communication, but you don't need to be a scientist to imagine the implications.
So we looked for signs of how aliens might have used this technology to introduce their thoughts and ideas into our civilization over the years. Our adventures began when we discovered an alien plan to conquer Earth called Star Doors Red. We actually went to the alien's planet with our minds and found robots that we could control and use to explore their world. We discovered their civilization was on the verge of collapse due to self-induced environmental catastrophes and wars. The situation was so dire that most of the planet's leaders had fled their planet on a starship heading to Earth years before we got there. These elite leaders chose to spend half of their lives travelling to Earth with the ultimate goal of conquering and ruling our planet. Fortunately, we were able to take control of a powerful super robot on their ship and destroy their weapons and their ability to send their misguided and destructive thoughts to Earth. But we overlooked something. We didn't realize that these aliens, called the Kan, had already infected Earth with an alien disease that could ultimately destroy humanity. Using thought communication technology they had created a secret corporation on Earth headed by a mysterious person known only as the Dog. This corporation's goal was to accumulate a large percentage of Earth's wealth and transfer it to the aliens when they arrive in 2020. Even without direct alien guidance, this corporation was thriving and legally stealing and accumulating massive amounts of wealth and power. It left a path of economic and environmental destruction in its wake.
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Fundamentals of Statistical Reasoning in Education
Theodore Coladarci and Casey D. Cobb
This text gives educators the statistical knowledge and skills necessary in everyday classroom teaching, in running schools, and in professional development pursuits. It emphasises conceptual development with an engaging style and clear exposition.
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Discovering the Essential Universe
Neil F. Comins
Discovering the Universe confronts the challenges of the one-term astronomy course by heightening student curiosities about the cosmos, by using the context of astronomy to teach the process of science, and by highlighting common misconceptions and showing students how to think their way past them.
With its signature combination of vivid writing and spectacular images, the new edition offers new findings, new study help, and an expanded new media/supplements package centered on W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad. -
Discovering the Universe: with Starry Night College
Neil F. Comins and William J. Kaufmann III
The new edition captures the current state of our understanding of the cosmos, with new findings, new study help, and an expanded new media/supplements package centered on W.H. Freeman’s breakthrough online course space, LaunchPad.
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Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson
Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of social change. Groups designed as devalued can be undesigned, redesigned and rebranded to seamlessly and equivalently participate in community, work and civic life. This innovative book argues that disability as a concept and category is created, reified, and segregated through current design and branding that begs for creative change.
Transcending models of disability that locate it either as an embodied medical condition or as a socially constructed entity, this book challenges the very existence and usefulness of the category itself. Proposing and illustrating creative and responsible design, DePoy and Gilson include thinking and action strategies that are useful and potent for "undesigning", redesigning, and rebranding to meet the full range of human needs and to enhance full participation in local through global communities. Divided into two parts, the first section presents a critical examination of disability as a designed and branded phenomenon, exploring what exactly is being designed and branded and how. The second part investigates the redesign of disability and provides principles for redesign and rebranding illustrated with examples from high-tech to place-based sustainable strategies.
The book provides a unique and contemporary framework for thinking about disability as well as providing relevant design and branding guidance to designers and engineers interested in embodiment issues.
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Advising and Mentoring Doctoral Students: A Handbook
Susan K. Gardner and Betina J. Barnes
Most faculty who advise doctoral students do so in one of two ways: Emulate their own advisor (because it was a good experience) or do the exact opposite of their own advisor (because it was a poor one). Rarely are faculty provided with guidance, professional development, or even research related to how to best advise doctoral students. This handbook, written by two experts on doctoral education, provides evidence-based practices, policies, and resources to assist faculty advisors and their doctoral advisees.
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Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England
Richard W. Judd
Bounded by the St. Lawrence Valley to the north, Lake Champlain to the west, and the Gulf of Maine to the east, New England may be the most cohesive region in the United States, with a long and richly recorded history. In this book, Richard W. Judd explores the mix of ecological process and human activity that shaped that history over the past 12,000 years. He traces a succession of cultures through New England’s changing postglacial environment down to the 1600s, when the arrival of Europeans interrupted this coevolution of nature and culture.
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Historical Atlas of Maine
Richard W. Judd and Stephen John Hornsby
The Historical Atlas of Maine presents in cartographic form the historical geography of Maine from the end of the last ice age to the year 2000. Organized in four chronological sections, the Atlas tells the principal stories of the many people who have lived in Maine over the past 13,000 years. The Atlas covers the history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, the American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial development, and the rise of tourism and environmental awareness. To tell these stories, the Atlas presents a rich array of newly created maps, historical maps, paintings, graphs, and text. The result is not only a unique interpretation of Maine, but also a splendid visual record of the state’s history.
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Evolutionary Science of Human Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Peter J. LaFreniere and Glenn E. Weisfeld
This up-to-date, accessible book represents the new wave in the evolutionary analysis of human behavior that involves a reexamination of old ideas in light of recent empirical advances in the biological sciences.
A solid foundation for an evolutionary science of behavior was established in the mid-20th century by Nobel laureates Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. They provided a framework to address four basic questions concerning the behavior of all organisms: evolution, development, causation (mechanisms), and function. All four questions will receive attention in this volume. However, today’s evolutionary approach also includes concepts and even entire new fields that were not part of this earlier synthesis.
The book is intended for professionals in the field of evolutionary psychology and other scholars who wish to know more about the interdisciplinary origins of an evolutionary approach to behavior, including graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
The book is divided into two parts. The first half of the book surveys disciplines relevant to applying an evolutionary perspective to the study of human behavior. The exponential growth of disciplines like molecular genetics, genomics, epigenetics, behavior genetics, ethology, primatology, developmental psychology, life history theory, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, neuroscience and endocrinology has resulted in a pressing need to re-organize and integrate this new knowledge. We believe that it is essential for evolutionary scholars to maintain a basic familiarity with all of these disciplines.
The second half of the book covers selected aspects of behavior and its development. Students of mainstream psychology and the social sciences will find themselves on familiar ground here. However, the treatment of emotional, cognitive, personality, and social development is organized within the framework of evolutionary theory. Important topics in early social development such as emotional expression, attachment, play, peer relations, cooperation, dominance behavior and aggression are covered in detail.
Equally fundamental topics dealing with cognition, theory of mind, communication and language are also presented. Readers will learn how these evolved systems emerge from earlier precursors and the processes by which they are transformed and reorganized over the lifespan.
Later chapters cover adolescence, mate selection, reproductive strategies, parental investment and marriage. Contemporary social problems involving coalitionary violence and suicide terrorism are given fresh treatment by incorporating evolutionary models. The last three chapters present exciting new evolutionary perspectives on physical diseases and mental illness. These include ethological approaches to mental illnesses, the need to examine sex differences in all health research, and a final chapter inviting one to rethink research and practice in public health in the light of modern evolutionary theory.
The first wave of evolutionary psychology textbooks was crucial in establishing courses within required psychology curricula and conveyed the promise and excitement of this emerging field. It is our hope that this edited volume will help to broaden and expand an integrated evolutionary perspective on human behavior.
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Plays for Two
Eric Lane and Nina Shengold
Plays for Two is a unique anthology of twenty-eight terrific plays for two actors, by a mix of celebrated playwrights and cutting-edge new voices. It takes two to tango--or to perform a duet, fight a duel, or play ping-pong. The two-character play is dramatic confrontation stripped to its essence. These four full-length and twenty-four short plays feature pairs of every sort--strangers, rivals, parents and children, siblings, co-workers, friends, and lovers--swooning or sparring, meeting cute or parting ways. In a dizzying range of moods and styles, these two-handers offer the kind of meaty, challenging roles actors love, while providing readers and audiences with the pleasures of watching the complex give-and-take dynamics of two keenly matched characters.
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Open Secret
Jennifer Moxley
Poetry. THE OPEN SECRET is a recipe for paradox and mystery. At once formal, candid, and familiar, Jennifer Moxley invokes a common if inchoate sense of shared experience, the very passing of time, with its unforeseen effects on both love and creative life. In doing so, she asks us to consider the cost of long-held devotions and commitments, as well as our relationship to the larger whole.
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Effective Intervention with Adolescents Who Have Offended Sexually: Translating Research into Practice
Sue Righthand, Brittany Baird, Ineke Way, and Michael C. Seto
Effective interventions with adolescents with illegal sexual behaviors are developmentally appropriate, assessment-driven and well-implemented. They target dynamic risk and protective factors that are empirically associated with repeated sexual and nonsexual offending. To be most useful, assessments, case planning, and interventions are holistic and include a socio-ecological focus that considers not only the adolescent, but caregivers, peers, and other social influences. Using the risk-needs-responsivity principles (RNR), the authors of this important monograph summarize the latest research findings in each of these important areas.
Clinicians will find the book useful as they conduct assessments, develop treatment plans, monitor progress and determine when treatment objectives and goals have been reached. Program managers and directors will find it useful as they evaluate the effectiveness of their programs and develop or modify their programs to most effectively meet the needs of their clients and families and, as a consequence, facilitate community safety. Social service caseworkers, juvenile probation officers, and other professionals who refer adolescents who have offended sexually for treatment also may find this book useful for helping them identify and select programs that address relevant and research-based targets and employ the most evidence-based intervention strategies.
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Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito
How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist; Amiga software doesn’t run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media, distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work.
New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion. Rinehart and Ippolito, both museum professionals, examine the preservation of new media art from both practical and theoretical perspectives, offering concrete examples that range from Nam June Paik to Danger Mouse. They investigate three threats to twenty-first-century creativity: technology, because much new media art depends on rapidly changing software or hardware; institutions, which may rely on preservation methods developed for older mediums; and law, which complicates access with intellectual property constraints such as copyright and licensing. Technology, institutions, and law, however, can be enlisted as allies rather than enemies of ephemeral artifacts and their preservation. The variable media approach that Rinehart and Ippolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete.
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Alicia, esto es el capitalismo
Carlos Villacorta Gonzáles
The novel is a new kind of narrative about Generation X’ers, love, and coming of age during the Fuijimori regime in Peru.
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Embedded Systems with ARM® Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C
Yifeng Zhu
This book introduces basic programming of ARM Cortex chips in assembly language and the fundamentals of embedded system design. It presents data representations, assembly instruction syntax, implementing basic controls of C language at the assembly level, and instruction encoding and decoding. The book also covers many advanced components of embedded systems, such as software and hardware interrupts, general purpose I/O, LCD driver, keypad interaction, real-time clock, stepper motor control, PWM input and output, digital input capture, direct memory access (DMA), digital and analog conversion, and serial communication (USART, I2C, SPI, and USB). The book has the following features: * Emphasis on structured programming and top-down modular design in assembly language
* Line-by-line translation between C and ARM assembly for most example codes
* Mixture of C and assembly languages, such as a C program calling assembly subroutines, and an assembly program calling C subroutines
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Insect Pests of Potato: Global Perspectives on Biology and Management
Andrei Alyokhin
Insect Pests of Potato: Biology and Management provides a comprehensive source of up-to-date scientific information on the biology and management of insects attacking potato crops, with an international and expert cast of contributors providing its contents. This book presents a complete review of the scientific literature from the considerable research effort over the last 15 years, providing the necessary background information to the subject of studying the biology management of insect pests of potatoes, assessment of recent scientific advances, and a list of further readings. This comprehensive review will be of great benefit to a variety of scientists involved in potato research and production, as well as to those facing similar issues in other crop systems.
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Animals Everywhere
Susan Bennett-Armistead
A sub series from the My World Collection, a series of leveled emergent informational texts designed to enhance young children’s knowledge of their world while developing an understanding of the features and characteristics of the informational text genre. Intended to support young children’s growing curiosity about the world around them, the collection is divided into five 10-book themes, each providing factual information about a different aspect of the natural or social world.
The My World Animals Everywhere Theme Set includes each of the following titles:
Animal Babies, Animals in the Forest, Animals in the Sea, Animals Move! Go Fish! Insects, Mammals, Pets, Reptiles, and Where Do Animals Live?
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Going places
Susan Bennett-Armistead
A sub series from the My World Collection, a series of leveled emergent informational texts designed to enhance young children’s knowledge of their world while developing an understanding of the features and characteristics of the informational text genre. Intended to support young children’s growing curiosity about the world around them, the collection is divided into five 10-book themes, each providing factual information about a different aspect of the natural or social world.
The My World Going Places Theme Set includes the following titles:
Getting Around in the Air, Getting Around on Land, Getting Around on the Water, Go Fast! Go Slow!, Here We Go!, Inside a Plane, Inside a Truck, On a Boat, Train Ride!, Wheels
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Growing things
Susan Bennett-Armistead
A sub series from the My World Collection, a series of leveled emergent informational texts designed to enhance young children’s knowledge of their world while developing an understanding of the features and characteristics of the informational text genre. Intended to support young children’s growing curiosity about the world around them, the collection is divided into five 10-book themes, each providing factual information about a different aspect of the natural or social world.
The My World Growing Things Theme Set includes the following titles:
Farmers Grow Food, From Seeds, Garden Helpers, Growing a Garden, On the Farm, Planting, Plants, Up and Down, What Are Plants?, Who Grows Things?
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Having fun
Susan Bennett-Armistead
A sub series from the My World Collection, a series of leveled emergent informational texts designed to enhance young children’s knowledge of their world while developing an understanding of the features and characteristics of the informational text genre. Intended to support young children’s growing curiosity about the world around them, the collection is divided into five 10-book themes, each providing factual information about a different aspect of the natural or social world.
The My World Having Fun Theme Set includes the following titles:
Friends Are Fun, Fun at School, Fun Outside, Happy Campers, Having Fun, Making Art, Parties, Play Ball!, Pretending, Reading Is Fun
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My community
Susan Bennett-Armistead
A sub series from the My World Collection, a series of leveled emergent informational texts designed to enhance young children’s knowledge of their world while developing an understanding of the features and characteristics of the informational text genre. Intended to support young children’s growing curiosity about the world around them, the collection is divided into five 10-book themes, each providing factual information about a different aspect of the natural or social world.
The My World My Community Theme Set includes the following titles:
Animals in My Community, Buildings, Food in My Community, Fun in My Community, Getting Around My Community, Neighbors, Stores, Very Important People, What's a Community?, Where Do People Live?
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The Sex Lives of College Students: Two Decades of Attitudes and Behaviors
Sandra L. Caron
The Sex Lives of College Students presents the results of more than a 100-question human sexuality survey administered over the past two decades to thousands of college students ages 18-22. The goal is to better understand their sexual attitudes and behaviors, as well as trends. The findings raise awareness and provide perspective about students' understanding of sex matters and related difficult issues, and tell us we still have a long way to go before people own their sexuality. The survey reinforces the fact that young adults are generally comfortable pursuing sexual relationships, but often fail to openly discuss sexual issues. Some of the results suggest that the double standard is alive and well, as when more college women than men say that love is important in sex. The Sex Lives of College Students provides a springboard for honest dialogue about the role of sexuality in people's lives and a forum for more public discussion of private parts.
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down the Plains
Rhea Côté Robbins
'down the Plains' is a continuation of examining what does it mean to be Franco-American and growing up in Maine. 'down the Plains' takes the reader on the literary journey in a geography and landscape of the liminal generation that carries the language and culture toward a modern expression.
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Learning To Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging
Margaret Cruikshank Editor
Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology. Learning to Be Old does not propose the ideas of “successful aging” or “productive aging,” but more the idea of “learning” how to age.
Featuring new research and analysis, the third edition of Learning to be Old demonstrates, more thoroughly than the previous editions, that aging is socially constructed. Among texts on aging the book is unique in its clear focus on the differences in aging for women and men, as well as for people in different socioeconomic groups. Cruikshank is able to put aging in a broad context that not only focuses on how aging affects women but men, as well. Key updates in the third edition include changes in the health care system, changes in how long older Americans are working especially given the impact of the recession, and new material on the brain and mind-body interconnections. Cruikshank impressively challenges conventional ideas about aging in this third edition of Learning to be Old. -
VO2 Max: Athlete's Journal
Richard B. Kent
Here's a book that will help athletes of all ages sharpen their mental games and improve. VO2 Max Athlete's Journal guides athletes in thinking more deeply about training and competition, sport and life. The book has 72 multi-themed journal prompts, pre- mid- and postseason reflection pages as well as a season's worth of Competition Analyses. The book includes a short introduction on the theory behind using writing as a way to learn in athletics.
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Writing The Dance: Workbook & Journal For Dancers
Richard Kent and Josie Bray
"Writing the Dance" provides dancers and dance students of all abilities with an opportunity to immerse, think broadly, and connect deeply to the inner life of the dancer. Within this book you'll find a wide variety of reflective activities that can optimize a dancer's performance, including prompts and analysis pages for classes, rehearsals, and performances. This workbook-journal allows dancers to come to know their work in the studio and on stage in a more intimate and detailed way.
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Pitch Notes: Soccer Journal
Richard Kent and Amy Edwards
Based on the training logs and notebooks of Olympians and other world-class athletes, Pitch Notes Soccer Journal provides a variety of reflective activities that can ultimately optimize an athlete's performance. The journal includes match analysis pages, writing prompts, and note pages.
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Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865-1946
Pauleena M. MacDougall
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm and Her Quest for Local Knowledge, 1865–1946 reveals an important story that speaks directly to contemporary issues as historians of science, social science and humanities begin to re-evaluate the nature, content, and role of indigenous and folk knowledge systems. Eckstorm's life and work illustrate the constant tension between local lay knowledge and the more privileged scientific production of academics that increasingly dominated the field from the early twentieth century. At the time Eckstorm was writing, the growth in professionalism and eclipse of the amateur led to a reorganization of knowledge. As increasing specialization defined the academy, indigenous knowledge systems were dismissed as unscientific and born of ignorance. Eckstorm recognized and lauded the innate value of traditional knowledge that could fell trees in the interior of Maine and ship them internationally as finished lumber.
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New England Gardener's Year: A Month-by-Month Guide for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Upstate New York
Reeser C. Manley and Marjorie Peronto
This comprehensive full-color what-to/when-to/how-to reference manual covers every garden and landscape planting including the most proven and popular as well as many native New England plants that deserve to be better known. Month-by-month guidance from March through October, with suggested dates for planting and tending adjusted for each zone, is augmented by advice on such topics as soil testing, composting, pruning, landscape design, and how to provide a season-long source of pollen and nectar for beneficial insects. Gardeners will find advice and photos for adapting to any microclimate or situation including shade; wet soil; coastal landscapes; container, raised-bed, and extended-season gardening; and much more.
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Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left and Wilsonian Internationalism
Elizabeth McKillen
Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines and conflicts that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10
Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, and Noah Vawter
This book takes a single line of code--the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title--and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat code not as merely functional but as a text--in the case of 10 PRINT, a text that appeared in many different printed sources--that yields a story about its making, its purpose, its assumptions, and more. They consider randomness and regularity in computing and art, the maze in culture, the popular BASIC programming language, and the highly influential Commodore 64 computer.
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Production and Applications of Cellulose Nanomaterials
Michael T. Postek, Robert J. Moon, Alan W. Rudie, and Michael A. Bilodeau
This publication features more than 100 short technical summaries on preparation, characterization and applications of cellulose nanomaterials
o Represents completed and ongoing work from 45 institutions in 10 countries
o Preparation and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibrils
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Scholarship in action: applied research and community change
Linda Silka and United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Scholarship in Action is a monograph that highlights the benefits derived from engaged, community-based research; showcases emerging [applied] research; and identifies the challenges associated with applied research. The unifying theme throughout this collection is how much communities and universities can achieve by working together in [research] partnerships.
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Functional morphology and diversity
Les Watling Editor and Martin Thiel Editor
Crustaceans are increasingly used as model organisms in all fields of biology, including neurobiology, developmental biology, animal physiology, evolutionary ecology, biogeography, and resource management. One reason for the increasing use of crustacean examples is the wide range of phenotypes found in this group and the diversity of environments they inhabit; few other taxa exhibit such a variety of body shapes and adaptations to particular habitats and environmental conditions. A good overview of their functional morphology is essential to understanding many aspects of their biology.
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